Word: cantos
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...DIED. JAMES WONG, 64, lyricist who helped father the sweetly infectious Canto-pop sounds of the 1980s and '90s; after a three-year battle with lung cancer; in Hong Kong. Wong also composed for films, television and advertising, and was also an accomplished actor, director, writer and TV talk-show host. He penned more than 1,000 songs, including the theme to Under the Lion Rock, a hit Hong Kong TV series of the 1970s...
Andy Lau, it turns out, is a lot like the rest of us. O.K., we don't have movie-idol looks and we don't make millions from crooning insipid love ballads to panting female audiences. But for a long time the iconic Canto-pop star saw his job in the same way most of us see ours: as a soul-deadening grind. Going back two decades, when he was starting in television, or to the mid-'80s, after he made his big leap into films, Lau was dogged by a sensation that he was sleepwalking through his performances...
...That's an oddly belated revelation for a man who has logged more than 120 films in 22 years in the business, all the while maintaining a singing career that has kept him at the top of Hong Kong's fickle Canto-pop world. But at age 42, Lau is only just beginning to savor the challenges of his acting vocation. He is reshaping his career without the safely rounded edges of his leading-man persona, taking on riskier and more complex character roles such as the tightly wound triad spy he played in the hit Infernal Affairs trilogy...
...Daggers adds something new to Zhang's successful formula: Canto-pop star power, courtesy of Lau. For a highbrow director like Zhang?who is racing to complete the film in time for Cannes next month?casting a pinup icon seems out of character. But he and Lau had been talking for a long time about working together. "Andy's a great actor," says Zhang. "He can cry on cue five takes in a row, which isn't easy?and he's improving...
...DIED. ANITA MUI, 40, flamboyant actress and Canto-pop diva, known as the Asian Madonna; of lung dysfunction caused by cervical cancer; in Hong Kong. (See Appreciation, page...